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Safe at Any Speed: Building a Performant, Safe, Maintainable Packet Processor

Presented by: Sebastian Funk At Jane Street, we’ve been building systems to trade electronically for over a decade. As technology advances and the scale of the markets grows, we need our systems to be able to process ever growing amounts of data in ever shorter time windows. In this talk, we explore how to build a highly optimized single-core packet processing system that is capable of processing millions of messages per second. We see how to bridge the gap between the high-level abstractions we’ve come to love when structuring code, and efficient machine-level execution necessary to process messages at line-rate.

08 May 2019

Jane Street - Tech Talks

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7th MirageOS hack retreat

Let's talk sun, mint tea and OCaml: Yes, you got it, the MirageOS biennial retreat at Marrakesh! For the 7th iteration of the retreat, the…

06 May 2019

Tarides

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Blockchains @ OCamlPro: an Overview

OCamlPro started working on blockchains in 2014, when Arthur Breitman came to us with an initial idea to develop the Tezos ledger. The idea was very challenging with a lot of innovations. So, we collaborated with him to write a specification, and to turn the specification into OCaml code. Since then...

29 Apr 2019

OCamlPro

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Learning ML Depth-First

If you haven’t heard of it, Depth FirstLearning is awonderful resource for learning about machine learning.

17 Apr 2019

Jane Street Tech Blog

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opam 2.0.4 release

We are pleased to announce the release of opam 2.0.4. This new version contains some backported fixes: Sandboxing on macOS: considering the possibility that TMPDIR is unset [#3597 @herbelin - fix #3576] display: Fix opam config var display, aligned on opam config list [#3723 @rjbou - rel. #3717] pin...

10 Apr 2019

OCamlPro

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Dune 1.9.0

Tarides is pleased to have contributed to the dune 1.9.0 release which introduces the concept of library variants. Thanks to this update…

10 Apr 2019

Tarides

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